- I’ve only read The Road and found it extremely difficult because of the nihilism. I put it down in the middle of it and stewed for 6 months before I picked it up again. I am so glad I did. I think his detractors are right, it is violent, nihilistic, masculine and whatever else. Through that the other side of the contrast becomes so vivid. Maybe there are better ways to get there. For me it hit.
My daughter and I talk about the message in the book regularly. Though she has yet to read it. I see more clearly my purpose as a dad and as a member in my community. Totally worth the read.
- I was trained with regards to realtime control systems to put salt in the messages to reduce repetition. Many systems just repeat a status or number from which you could more easily get the keys. Never knew if it was a real concern or not. Interesting to see from the post and comments how old a concept this is. With today’s encryption is this still a concern?
- As a thought, not tested, using wifi probe requests might be better through more dense material scenarios. Using a specific AP probe request "SOS Request" from the device would help discover over all the other AP requests that others are throwing. No idea if iOS or Android would let you hijack that process.
This is a bit more extreme, but some type of triangulation from multiple rescuers could be useful in closing in on a spot.
This is really interesting and thanks for sharing.
- There are several ontologies already well built out. Utilities and pharma both have them as an example. They are built by committee of vendors and users. They take a bit to penetrate the approach and language used. Often they are built to be adaptable.
I’ve had good success with CIM for Utilities to build a network graph for modelling the distribution and transmission networks adding sensor and event data for monitoring and analysis about 15 years ago.
Anywhere there is a technology focussed consortium of vendors and users building standards you will likely find a prebuilt graph. When RDF was “hot” many of the these groups spun out some attempt to model their domain.
In summary, if you need one look for one. Maybe there’s one waiting for you and you get to do less convincing and more doing.
- I wonder how much of this padding is for the next flight and due to all the other services needing to get a plane going like luggage, food services, fueling, deicing etc. The past two years have been a mess, but it doesn't always seem to be the flight crew or the plane itself. I've been on dirty planes, stuck at the gate due to no one to clear us from the gate. So much more outside of the airlines direct control is a mess too.
- At first I thought that substack was part of the Thiel/Musk enterprise or some other messed up billionaire club of political engineering, but not much was offered. Say "Substak is . . . a political project made by extremists . . ." Can't see any evidence of it here.
The other angle I could see is Substack is algo'ing neo-nazi content to folks. But I can't go to cancel mode just for hosting. I can see that getting reductive - who's the hypersaler, who provided the electrons, who's sold them the servers . . . there is no end. It really needs to end with reader.
- I wonder how localized the issues were. I watched the Taylor/Seranno fight and the Paul/Tyson without issue and the picture quality was the best in every seen for live sports. Was blown away by how good it was. No where near what I’m getting with steaming NFL. This is what I want the future of live sports to look like. Though the commentary was so so.
I’m in the Pacific Northwest. I wonder if we got lucky on this or just some areas got unlucky.
- I’m getting over a month of charge time. Worse case is - take my laptop off the dock and use the keyboard and mouse on it. The pain of everyday life on The Verge is legendary.
- This is whataboutism. Doesn’t work here.
- I used to do this, now I use icloud and the 'hide my email' tool and it works without any hassle. Even asks me when signing up for something if I want to hide my email. It is easier than adding it to my old setup. Even easier than when I was using my free Google for Business setup.
The rest of apple's email landscape sucks. It is pretty poor at managing spam, the client is terrible, it doesn't sync rules between the desktop app, icloud email, and iphone.
I hate email in general. It is getting to be 1 in a 100 type scenario of anything of value and likely worse if I knew all the emails that were deleted before I saw them.
- This is what most podcasts do though. The review of 'Alien' sounded like Armchair expert and The Big Picture all rolled into one. Lots of gushing there. Hard to find good movie critics. If I could get something like Video Archives for all my movies that would be cool. Interesting future if you could replicate Tarantino and Avary. In the end it could sound like and fool you, but there is now way it could put together all of the personal conversations Tarantino and Avary have had with big swaths of Hollywood.
I'm just amazed though how well they nailed the sound of it all. The back and forth, the layer of one speaking over another at the right time, each sounding like your average podcast host in that light style. But the content sucked.
- I’ve worked with on prem and now AWS. Even being on AWS I think the first part of the article is great. Nice visual and description. When on prem, scaling was an issue during event storms. But by then we at least had enough to know what the problem was.
Scaling the number of messages is no longer an issue for us using SQS but size is. Basically there are still constraints. We then need to pass references. “Details created etc find it here”. On prem we could dump around 25 MB into message without issue and could go to 50 MB but it wasn’t safe.
I get your point on the queue and pub/sub not being the same. Just to note we do a lot of hybrid and expect others do to. Publish to a topic and bridge to queues. Fan out is easy and gives choice. I don’t know google’s version, with TIBCO EMS this was easy to manage and was clear to everyone. If you wanted to listen to everything on prod.alerts.* you could or if you want to process prod.alerts.devices.headend you could just queue it and process all.
We use queues like storage for long outages so that senders don’t have to change anything. Not a great use but people were sure happy to know we could help by holding all the events while they could deal with their mess. Never got close to any limit when doing this on prem.
Never used it but isn’t the idea of Kafka to hold all events like a database? Love the idea. Seems so lazy and useful at the same time. Now that I write this I can see the danger too. You become a transaction system of record. Ugh. That’s someone else’s problem ;).
- I bought an early version of Redhat on CDs there along with my tech books. I was then able to get to my own mail and ftp server going. WBB might even get some credit for my career path.
- That was the perfect trinity for me. Not sure I see it as a tragedy, but I do hate the feeling of nostalgia and knowing I can never get back to that time and place. I was down there semi-regularly from my mid-teens to early twenties. Overall great time in my life and I think for Toronto at large. Even if they still existed I could never get back to that point in time.
- Worked with a rete engine in Tibco's CEP. This was used for utility events and deciding what if anything to be done with the event in the context of others and then route it. I've seen it similarly used with bank security and customer management. Another interesting use case was using it as a master data management platform for customer data across a company with a bunch of subsidiaries that had the same customers.
What we liked about it was the ability to contextualize events by keeping a history and relationship between objects and events that we could reference as part of our rules. Particularly when we get an event storm and putting more signal into situational awareness when there is a lot of noise.
- Liberal democracy never won in China, not sure how it can be lost. The central piece of the blog seems to be this:
"China hasn’t yet proven the superiority of its system, but its successes raise the uncomfortable question: Can this be what wins? Can universal surveillance, speech control, suppression of religion and minorities, and economic command and control really be the keys to national power and stability in the 21st century? How could that be true, when those same things failed so comprehensively in the 20th?. . . it’s useful and to think about how and why totalitarianism might be well-adapted to the world of the 21st century. In fact, I have a theory of how this might be true. This theory is only a conjecture — *it’s something I don’t believe in*, but also something I can’t yet convince myself is wrong."
By the end of it I don't really get what this article is trying say. The first 2/3rds is about all the shiny things China has and people like it because they don't see the dumpster fire in the alley that made it all happen.
If one was concerned about the direction of liberal democracies outside of the West, India would be a more interesting place to look.
- Interesting in the article they discuss how the introduction of the horse created a broader dependency on bison and more vulnerable by its availability. Ultimately though, smallpox is what did the most damage across N. America. Haida Gwaii for example went from something like 40,000 people to 400.
- Tried rewind, it does an amazing job grabbing everything locally and the search is great. With the addition of Kin it would be an easy buy.
- To add to the understanding of Penn and Teller, they love their fans and beyond. I've been to two of their shows and their efforts are to entertain and teach you about scams and confidence games so that you question what you see and are being told. They go to great lengths to tell you how they are scamming you and then show you the trick and still trick you so you aren't so confident. You're not as smart as you think you are. At the end of the show they meet with the audience at the main entrance to take pictures with them and show their appreciation. They should be a high school credit.
Seeing this video has convinced me it’s a feature. I can’t see iOS development practices that shit and to read comments here about similar Android issues.